Feministing.sh --verbose

[flexagon]

I forgot to say that I struck a tiny little blow for feminism on Friday. Someone asked me to do a code review, and in a comment in the script was something like:

The user can specify which snoggles he wants to flirg.

I said,

no big deal but I'd prefer to see "which snoggles to flirg".

And the change was made.

I'm a bit tempted now to search the Slogger codebase for the words "he" and "his" and "him", to see what else is hiding in there. Bah for assumptions -- girls can run scripts, you know -- and bah to the English language for not having a neutrally gendered singular pronoun in the first place.

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[(Anonymous)]

I have had this conversation a zillion times and the guys involved don't ever seem to understand why. They'll generally humour me, but it drives me up the wall.

[gmtarkin.livejournal.com]

Definitely bah to the English language for the lack of a gender-neutral pronoun, and also for not differentiating second person singular and plural. In other languages, when they use a gender-specific pronoun, you *know* they're being sexist.